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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device Date: 21 Feb 1996 23:27:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4gg9p6$l8t@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4gcnj3$jbg@maureen.teleport.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 nailers@teleport.com (Blake Swensen) writes: > A SCSI drive on my system failed so I replaced it with an identical drive > after writing down all the disklabel and partition information. Your best bet would have been (assuming sd0 is the old and sd1 the new drive): dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/rsd1 count=1000 in single-user mode. After this, newfs the file system on the new disk. > After writing the FreeBSD slice using FreeBSD fdisk (which appears > to have worked), and running disklabel, I get the error: disklabel: > ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device. Which device have you been using for fdisk and disklabel? Btw., you could have saved the old label in a file, and restored it with ``disklabel -r -R sd1 backupfile''. > There are no DOS partitions on the drive... slice 0 starts at 0 and > goes to the end of the drive. I want to create only one FreeBSD > partition (e:) which encompasses the entire slice (yes, I know that > I need c: and d:). You don't need a `d' partition anymore. Should all else fail, get /sbin/disklabel from a recent FreeBSD-current, and do: disklabel -B -r -w sd1 auto disklabel -e sd1 # to edit the partition table This will occupy the entire drive for FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)